Sometimes you must lose yourself to find yourself
- To find yourself, you must first lose yourself Jared Leto
- The explorer is the person who is lost. Tim Cahill
- Before you can find God, you must lose yourself. Baal Shem Tov
- Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are. RZA
- Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. Henry Miller
- Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
- Sometimes you have to lose yourself ‘fore you can find anything. Burt Reynolds
- Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find. Catherine of Siena
- There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself. Rufus Jones
- Once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely. G. Wells
- Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. Henry Miller
- The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. ‘If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,’ Jesus said, ‘he will find his true self. Elisabeth Elliot
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To find yourself, lose yourself in art
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.. Thomas Merton
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To find yourself, lose yourself in dance
- Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time. Pete Townshend
- The dance is not where we lose ourselves. But where we find ourselves. Gabrielle Roth
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To find yourself, lose yourself in presence
- To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. Rebecca Solnit
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To find yourself, lose yourself in something bigger than you
- The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. Norman Vincent Peale
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To find yourself, lose yourself in love
- Grace is given not that we might find some exterior source of strength but that we might be established again in the deep inner security of our being and in learning to lose ourselves in love for one another to truly find ourselves. John Philip Newell
- Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness. Fulton J. Sheen
- What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator. Donald Miller
- Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love. Rumi
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To find yourself, lose yourself in what you love
- There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one’s identity by falling in love. Lukas Foss
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To find yourself, lose yourself in service
- As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
- Find yourself by losing yourself for others. Mahatma Gandhi
- The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi
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To find yourself, lose yourself in a book
- Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves. Cassandra King
- We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world. Judith Butler
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To find yourself, lose yourself in travel
- New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves. Christian Nestell Bovee
- Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that’s needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what’s needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself. Phil Cousineau
- We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. Pico Iyer
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To find yourself, lose yourself in desires, memories, passions
- Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again. Bernhard Schlink
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To find yourself, lose yourself in nature
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To find yourself, lose yourself in reflection and imagining
- Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness…. Thanks be to God that this is so! In fact, this need tells us that we are not made for work alone, but also to think, to reflect or even simply to follow with our minds and our hearts a tale, a story in which to immerse ourselves, in a certain sense to lose ourselves to find ourselves subsequently enriched. Pope Benedict XVI
- He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot … He found himself flying among stars and planets. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose–and then to find–ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time. Friedrich Nietzsche
